quotes

Question 1

time quotes

Answer 1

• ’ reclining against the mantelpiece…His head leaned back so far that it rested against the face of a defunct mantelpiece clock’
• ‘tilt dangerously’ chapter 5
• “You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!” chapter 6

Question 2

class quotes

Answer 2

• “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and . . . then retreated back into their money’

Question 3

materialism quotes

Answer 3

• “He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them one by one” (chapter 6)
• “Began to cry stormily”, “sobbed” (chapter 6)
• “ Her voice is full of money” (chapter 7)
• “Mrs. Wilson had changed her costume some time before and was now attired
  in an elaborate afternoon dress of cream colored chiffon”

Question 4

daisy

Answer 4

• “Began to cry stormily”, “sobbed” (chapter 6)
  ‘said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be.’ (chapter 5)
• “ Her voice is full of money” (chapter 7)
• ‘I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
• ‘golden girl’
• “before the wedding he gave a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars” (chapter 4)
• ‘her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth’ chapter 1

Question 5

myrtle

Answer 5

• ‘thickish figure of a woman blocked out the light from the office door… faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously’ (chapter 2)
• ‘”It’s just a crazy old thing,” she said. “I just slip it on sometimes when I don’t care what I look like.”’ (chapter 2)
• ‘her left breast was swinging loose like a flap.. The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners.. giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long.’ (chapter 7)

Question 6

gatsby quotes

Answer 6

• ’ you must know gatsby. gatsby? what gatsby?’